大灾难促使我们重温四圣谛
<font size="3">当一个个活生生的生命，我们的四川同胞，变成新闻发布网上一个漆黑的不断增长的阿拉伯数字</font><font size="3">，</font><font size="3">我们的心被撕</font><font size="3">开。</font><font size="3"> 当看到那些孩子遇难后的悲惨照片，痛心的不只是中国人，没有人不会为之动容。余震，余震，没完没了的余震! 当每个人都受伤，每颗心都受伤，我们对苦难，对这个世界是不是有了更深的认识？我想我们有必要再次回顾和思考四圣谛，以及重新思索生命和生活的意义。</font><span class="viewthreadtxt"></span><span class="viewthreadtxt"></span><p style="margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; color: Black;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><strong><br></strong></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; color: Black;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><strong><br></strong></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; color: Black;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><strong>The
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Four Noble Truths</strong></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><strong><br></strong></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
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Buddha often used a medical model to describe his core teaching.
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There is sickness, the cause of sickness, the end of sickness and
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a cure for sickness. These are known as the
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Four Noble Truths.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><font size="3"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. There
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is suffering.</font></strong></font></p>
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as we normally know it must always have a proportion of disagreeable
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experiences. Sickness, pain and distress are obvious examples. Even
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in relatively affluent societies people suffer from anxiety, stress
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or a loss of purpose or they feel incapable of dealing with life's
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challenges. Moreover, agreeable experiences are limited and transient.
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As human beings we are always vulnerable amid the uncertainties
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of life and no manipulation of our outer situation can protect us
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completely from the possibility of suffering.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><font size="3"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There
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is a cause of suffering.</font></strong></font></p>
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in this case, is the inner conflict that we have with the natural
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ups and downs of life. Sickness and loss are natural as are gain
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and health. Our inability to peacefully abide with life's changes
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expresses itself in a variety of ways: fear, anger, greed, confusion,
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self-hatred, jealousy etc. This is because we often want what we
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don't have and don't want what we do have. This wanting is known
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as craving and attachment to craving is the cause of suffering.</font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></p>
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is an end to suffering.</font></strong></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">When
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our lives are ruled by craving we are in a perpetual state of imbalance
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and discontent. If we learn to let go of craving our hearts return
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to a natural state of balance and ease in which there is a possibility
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of deep peace and profound compassion. The deeper the letting go,
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the deeper the peace and love.</font></p>
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is a Way to the end of suffering and that is the Noble Eightfold
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
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Noble Eightfold Path offers guidelines for the development of one's
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spiritual life. Right Understanding begins with an intellectual
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appreciation of the cause of suffering and culminates in a profound
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realization of the way things are. From Right Understanding, one's
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thinking becomes attuned to truth and hence Right Intention motivates
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one's actions, speech and thought. From here lifestyle issues are
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addressed in terms of Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood.
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All of this requires Right Effort and Right Mindfulness. Finally
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the ability to stay present and mindful is strengthened by Right
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Meditation.</font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></p>
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'Right-ness' of these is that they entail living in accordance with
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virtue, meditation and wisdom, rather than from any self-centred
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position. Such a Way is therefore 'Right' for others as well as
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for oneself.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Someone
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who has fully cultivated this Way finds serenity and patience in
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themselves in times of difficulty, and the wish to share good fortune
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when things go well. They live a life free from guilt, and, rather
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than having violent mood swings, the mind and heart stay steady
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and buoyant through the circumstances of life.</font></p>
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